Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.

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To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.

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Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.

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One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the Spring.

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We face the question whether a still higher standard of living is worth its costs in things natural, wild, and free.

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Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient.

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Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers.

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A thing is right if it tends to preserve the stability, integrity, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong if it tends otherwise.

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A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.

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Recreational development is a job not of building roads into the lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind.

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